Feb. 5 would have been Trayvon Martin's 20th birthday. 20. Still impossibly young. In solidarity with him and so many others, too many others, the stunning #LastWords project by Iranian journalist and filmmaker Shirin-Banou Barghi seeks to understand the losses - What did he say? What did it mean? How did it come to be?

From D'Angelo: All we wanted was a chance to talk/'Stead we only got outlined in chalk

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Whew. That was way too close for comfort. And yeah, the country's in a sorry state to have come to this. But not only does Doug Jones become the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years; his win is a blunt rejection of all the hate-mongering, gay-bashing, race-baiting, sexual-assaulting, serial lying crap of losers Moore and Trump and Bannon and their ugly ilk. Forward to mid-terms. And once and for all, to Moore in all his evil: "Fuck you and the horse you (badly) rode in on."